The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For many years I’ve been facilitating a 360 assessment and leadership development process for a deeply technical science/engineering association. Their team members call this micromanagement. Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (STEMM) are vital to our economy, climate, health, and well-being.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 20, 2015

Here are a few examples: We need a new product prototype that meets these engineering specifications…. Don’t delegate the process – that’s micromanaging or training. The good news is that when you address these mistakes, your people grow, your team gets more done, and you have more time for the work only you can do.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

Head of HR, Civil Engineering Company It's definitely been a motivating factor for people who have never had the opportunity, they recognise that this is a great chance to get a qualification as well as learning to become better at their jobs and they get that satisfaction of delivering more effectively in their role.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

Head of HR, Civil Engineering Company It's definitely been a motivating factor for people who have never had the opportunity, they recognise that this is a great chance to get a qualification as well as learning to become better at their jobs and they get that satisfaction of delivering more effectively in their role.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 26, 2015

Your rational brain whispers “But the sales……are up” Scenario 2: You have a brilliant engineer on your team that you’ve recently promoted into management. And her direct reports are close to mutiny with the way she micromanages their work.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 28, 2013

Or, “The engineers are always so smug and condescending to us; don’t they understand the pressure we are under!?” The breakthrough hinges on determining what you and the team will be doing when “Your manager stops micromanaging,” or “Subordinates stop coming to you with problems,” or “Your team stops fighting amongst themselves”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 28, 2012

Search Engine Optimization Specialist. Great employees don’t need to be babysat, monitored, checked on, micromanaged, and shouldn’t need to fill out daily and weekly activity reports. . - Consultants. have in common with these five jobs that didn’t exist 10 years ago?: - Virtual Assistant. Social Media Manager. Hire great employees.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 5, 2014

Because micromanagement, the opposite of autonomy and the default behavior for many managers, puts people in a threatened state. He has experience working in financial services, energy, engineered products and services, and consumer goods. Autonomy at the Front Line Why does autonomy make such a difference?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

Micromanaging is a hard habit to break. If you’re the kind of boss who lasers in on details, prefers to be cc’ed on emails, and is rarely satisfied with your team’s work, then—there’s no kind way to say this— you’re a micromanager. How should you prioritize what matters?

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QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

Karin Hurt of Let’s Grow Leaders says, “ Micromanaging is a dysfunctional behavior that most leaders fall into from time to time. and presents her post “ The Insiders Guide to Micromanagement ”. ( @LetsGrowLeaders ). These recall delays are a failure of internal systems, of engineering, and, most critically, a failure of the heart.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 14, 2012

OR “The engineers are always so smug and condescending with the sales team, don’t they understand the pressure we are under!?” It has happened to all of us, someone at work ( your manager, coworker, subordinate, peer, vendor, customer, etc…) pisses you off and you go off an angry tirade about “What an a **e they are and they always do this.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

You could keep up to date with industry updates by following the mega publications like Search Engine Land , Search Engine Watch or the smaller, more actionable update blogs, such as local SEO specialist Jon Monk’s Max Your Web. Learn marketing through online resources, or the language of your biggest customers via DuoLingo.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

On one occasion, the company sent a civil engineer to the top of a 500-foot cooling tower to do a walkdown. Tim asked the engineer: “What are you looking for while you’re up there?” The engineer mentioned concrete that’s falling or cracking, the handrail weakening, things like that, and then joked: “You should come with me.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

Micromanaging in a way that doesn’t allow team members to expand their own capabilities. Taking back the tasks that they have delegated because they believe they can do them better. Undercommunicating with direct reports, making them unsure of their duties.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Don’t micromanage your middle managers. Google infamously tried to eliminate their engineering managers only to learn that managers mattered — a lot. This creates unnecessary role switching from their perspective. The reality, however, is that most companies need effective middle managers over the long haul.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Bad bosses come in all shapes and sizes: abrasive and insensitive, indecisive, inconsistent and unfair, the micromanager who stifles your ability to perform and grow, and "matador managers" adept at sidestepping every tough issue that comes their way. So, the question isn't whether or not you'll have a bad boss.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Brescoll and her team looked at two other traditionally male jobs with considerable power – the CEO of an engineering firm and the chief judge of a state supreme court. The pattern persisted. A decision that backfired led to harsher scrutiny for female leaders than for men.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

He was very smart and polished but didn’t see how his pointed words and micromanaging ways were affecting his management team. ” But Hall soon caught himself after realizing he was charging too hard, especially with OSI’s field service engineers — the people who fix the machines OSI sells. .”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The executive responsible for the deliverable (but not the software engineering itself) felt something amiss. Is this micromanagement? There's both a cultural and personal difference between this kind of micromanagement and being a control freak.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Large corporations are devoting serious attention to becoming “ambidextrous,” combining robust exploitation capabilities for existing businesses with new exploration-driven business engines inside and outside their organization. And above all, young people are legitimizing entrepreneurship with enthusiasm, passion, and drive.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 15, 2009

Our brains are difference engines, trained to find and deal with patterns and their disruption. Those jobs I found myself micromanaged nearly all the time, but I feel more productive and creative now than ever before. It can be difficult to accept differences, but highly valuable in the long run.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

ISPs will instead be subject to the FCC’s more formal micromanagement; what former FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell refers to as the “mother may I” approach to regulation. Broadband providers, ironically, will be the only enterprises required to have users consent or “opt-in” to most uses of personal information.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Despite his challenges, all of which hadn’t improved much despite several previous coaching interventions, the company hadn’t fired him because he was considered one of the industry’s most brilliant engineers, responsible for several of the firm’s most profitable patents. We needed to understand the root cause.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

high empowering leadership) or 2) micromanaging the employee and never asking for advice or input (i.e., Instead, we found the opposite: that the more empowering leader actually “compensated” for the micromanaging leader, producing fairly high levels of overall empowerment and proactivity across the teams.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Engineers gave it rave reviews, and investors were lined up. He then maneuvered nerdy engineers to build his sexy devices. “Interference” need not require micromanagement of devices, networks, or applications. When regulators micromanaged markets, blocking such interference was the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2015

You don’t have to micromanage them, just provide clear, high-level direction. As David Fullerton, VP of Engineering at StackExchange, writes , “There’s no halfsies in a distributed team. New technologies – and the proper use of old technologies – are a crucial part of this adaptation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In addition, the senior leadership team typically does not micromanage their sales teams below. The sales organization tends to blame the other areas of the organization (engineering, marketing, support, etc.) They know, like and respect each other. DIY Attitude. Many underperforming sales organizations share something in common.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

At their best, companies realize that not everything is easily measurable, or should be measured, and that constant temperature taking and micromanagement are inefficient and demoralizing. Culture plays a big role in keeping the innovation engine firing on all cylinders.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Always appreciate your insights Peter… [link] mikemyatt Hi Elliot: The four items mentioned in your list regrettably happen to exist in many domains far beyond the engineering field. In my experience is always seems to boil down to focus – a person is either focused inwardly or outwardly.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity. These requirements were put into a ticket queue as tasks for the next available engineer to start working on. But many have done so in a way that actually makes them less agile.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

Even the term “net neutrality” was coined not by an engineer but by a legal academic, in 2003. That bill also made clear that Congress never intended the FCC to have the discretion to transform broadband into a public utility at will, and in doing so subject it to rate regulation and other micromanagement.

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